You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
BILL WATTERSONThe whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an “elite” class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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